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Towards an Organisational Model of Marital Instability
Author(s) -
Castles Francis G.,
Seddon Elizabeth
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1988.tb01276.x
Subject(s) - loyalty , project commissioning , publishing , politics , sociology , instability , psychology , social psychology , management , economics , business , political science , marketing , mechanics , law , physics
This paper parts company from psychological and much of systems based theorising on the nature of marital instability, and asks whether there might not be fresh insights available from a model of organisational recuperation and decay derived from economic and political analysis. It focuses on situations of incipient marital breakdown as ones in which the participants are confronted by a choice between exit, voice and loyalty, and draws out some of the analytical and therapeutic implications of such an approach.